Man who threw infant gets 5 years in prison

FREMONT - A Fremont man who admitted to shaking his infant son when the baby would not stop crying has pleaded guilty to child endangerment and was sentenced to five years in prison.

Kenneth Sluder, 31, told police he grew frustrated by the crying of his 7-month-old son and forcefully threw the infant onto the mattress in a bedroom, causing the child to fall off the bed and strike his head on a wooden chair.

On Thursday, Judge John Dewey of Sandusky County Common Pleas Court sentenced Sluder to prison as part of plea agreement.

On April 24, the child's mother, Brittany Cook returned home from work and noticed that the baby looked pale and that his "eyes didn't look right."

She immediately took the child to the emergency room at ProMedica Memorial Hospital in Fremont, where testing and X-rays revealed the child had suffered a skull fracture and was bleeding behind his eyes, according to police.

Fremont Police Detective Jason Kiddey told The News-Messenger the child was expected to make a full recovery from the injuries.